Friday, October 2, 2015

Spending Your October: A To-Do List for Adventuring Through the Month.

Happy October! It's one of the best months of the year, and it's definitely one of my favorite months to spend. We get thirty-one days of October magic, so make sure you spend them well! Here are some ideas to get you started.

1. Go to a pumpkin patch! The best location for cute pictures, ever.

2. Carve pumpkins. Quick story: One time, we were carving pumpkins outside (in the dark), and Chris was throwing pumpkin slime at me. Some of it hit my face, but I was really focused on what I was doing, so I left it there for a second while I finished what I was carving. But then it started sliding down my neck. Except it wasn't sliding, it was crawling. And making noise. Because it wasn't pumpkin slime, it was a frog.

A frog landed on my face and I just left it there because I thought it was pumpkin.

Moving on.

3. Make hot apple cider. Put this on the stove (or in the crockpot!) in the morning, and your house will smell amazing all day.

4. Look up fairs around you! It's the time of the year where fairs and festivals pop up all over!

5. Read a thriller. Last October I read Gone Girl...stay tuned for this year's choice.

9. Make caramel apples! Pro tip: After you make them and cover them in whatever your heart desires, use an apple cutter to cut them into slices that you can actually eat, as opposed to getting 90% caramel on your face and 10% actually in your mouth.

10. Go thrifting for oversized sweaters and baggy sweatshirts.

11. Each time you feel thankful for something, say so out loud. Work on voicing your gratitude instead of your complaints.

12. Check out Bath & Body Works' fall line. Smell like a pumpkin, or an apple. Up to you!

29 comments:

You know, I was thinking about making a list like this- but now I'll probably just use yours as my checklist this month ;) I can't wait to pick our pumpkins and carve them- we always have Charlie Brown playing in the background!! :)

MY DOG KEEPS TRYING TO EAT OUR PUMPKINS! Does Gatsby do this? I don't even understand, is something wrong with my dog?

Okay, as always I love your monthly lists. October is my favorite month in the whole wide world and I could not be any more excited. I will be participating in many of these activities including the pumpkin patch and pumpkin carving this weekend. Yay for all things Halloween!!!

I love your lists! This is so great. Literally squealed out loud at the pumpkin/frog story. I need to watch FNL when we get Netflix again. I did a "community service project" (weird calling it that but it gave us NHS) hours and was cheering in the crowd for one of the big games in FNL. It would be fun to try to find myself! Haha.

omg a frog was on your face?! thank you for sharing that short story because it was hilarious (though i'm sure not at the time). i just did #15 TODAY. check. i want to try the new toasted graham latte!

Drawing up a list of friends I can bribe to do these activities with me. You'd think "let's go to a pumpkin patch" translated over as "let's go do hard labor" in their ears! Ewwwww about the frog, though!

Love this list!! Need a new thriller, so please do share :) I've been thrifting for Toms and flannels (unsuccessfully) :( Love caramel apples with all the toppings, and they're really not hard to make. Slicing them is the best plan for sure. YESSS to FNL - I loved it, but have kind of fallen off the train of watching it lately. (Is that a phrase? Falling off the train? I don't even know.) And then everything outside, in the cool air, with the pretty trees - love it all.

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